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BURGESS, Anthony.-. Shakespeare.. Alfred A. Knopf, 1970, New York., 1970.
Price: US$8.78 + shipping
Description: 26x19. Encuadernación editorial. 272 pgs. Fotos y laminas a todo color y a toda página fuera de texto. Sello de librería en portada y en cantos. Texto en inglés. 653730
Seller: Librería y Editorial Renacimiento, S.A., VALENCINA DE LA CONCEPCIÓN, Spain
Burgess, Anthony,. Shakespeare. Alfred A Knopf, 1970.
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: In shrink wrap.
Seller: GridFreed, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Burgess, Anthony. Shakespeare. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$15.36 + shipping
Description: 272 p. illus., facsims., 48 col. plates (incl. coat of arms, ports. ) 27 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits, Plates, Facsimiles. Book Condition: Very good. DJ Condition: Very good. Very slight foxing inside front cover board, front end pages. Clean interior pages. Tight binding. Bibliography: p. [266] Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Burgess, Anthony. SHAKESPEARE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 272 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ light sunning to edges. Spine ends bumped w/ small bump to top edge of rear cover. DJ has light edge wear. Approx. 1/4" closed tear from top of spine. Illust. w/ 48 color plates and 97 b/w illustrations. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
BURGESS, Anthony. Shakespeare. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First am. Very good or better in very good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper rubbed with light yellowing, price clipped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Burgess, Anthony. Shakespeare. Knopf, 1970.
Price: US$24.50 + shipping
Description: New York. 1970. October 1970. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 48 color plates. 97 black-and-white illustrations. 272 pages. hardcover. Jacket pictures: (front) Detail from the bust of Shakespeare in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon; (back) the Flower Portrait of Shakespeare. keywords: Literature Shakespeare Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - For more than three hundred years, in pursuit of William Shakespeare, scholars have combed the archives, romantics have given play to their fantasies, cryptographers have attempted to decode' the plays. The man has eluded them. Now the hunt is joined by a writer most brilliantly apt for it: Anthony Burgess, scholar, poet, novelist, a man of peculiarly Elizabethan temper in his curiosity and creativity. Out of his profound and sympathetic knowledge of Shakespeare's England - its life, language, landscape, its great and ordinary people - and out of his artist's comprehension of the English drama as it grew from, and out-grew, the medieval morality play, he projects in rich and persuasive detail the world and the spirit of William Shakespeare. Interweaving his narrative with a superb collection of portraits and contemporary scenes, Burgess begins with the Stratford of Shakespeare's boyhood, the lively market town, the shabby-pretentious establishment of the poet's father, merchant glover and would-be gentleman, the petty school where Latin was force-fed to boys hustled into adulthood. He gives us Will at eighteen in love with one Anne, married to another eight years his senior. He makes immediate the complex, dazzling, squalid London of the 1580's as it spread before the ambitious young provincial from Stratford, arriving unknown to seek his fortune: a roistering, often brutal, world of alehouse poets, of playhouse rivalries, of rioting apprentices, of dangerous political intrigues, of fire, famine, and plague - but everywhere, always, the show going on, on open-air stages the melodramas of Marlowe and lesser men, at court the masque played by and for the aristocrat, and for the populace the bear pit and the public execution. Burgess captures - and communicates - the inspired garrulity of that most verbal time and place, the pervading exuberance of language which was to be distilled in Shakespeare's great works. He gives us Shakespeare the actor, the theatrical businessman, the suitor after patronage and advancement, the indifferent husband, bereaved father, lover of the Dark Lady, the dramatist in his supreme years. He gives us, in a burst of imaginative reconstruction, the opening performance of Hamlet. He concludes with a glimpse of Shakespeare in retirement, possessor of a fine house in Stratford, the crest and title of gentleman that he followed his father in desiring, and time and money enough to indulge the Elizabethan taste for litigation. The lives which touched Shakespeare's own are portrayed as well: Elizabeth the Queen, Essex, the Earl of Southampton, who was the poet's patron and friend, Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Nash, Greene, and a crowd of actors, Stratford citizens, and Londoners who were his neighbors, colleagues, rivals, and friends. Through Burgess's narrative, at once human, erudite, and playful, and through the superb gallery of pictures that both complement and reflect its animation, the reader stands as close as we have yet come to the best and least known of literary geniuses - to Shakespeare the master and Shakespeare the man. inventory #10727
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Anthony Burgess. Shakespeare. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Over-sized hardbound (quarto). First American edition stated. AS NEW. No wear to the binding. No distortion from improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. The as new dust jacket priced at $17.50(not clipped) shows no wear, no sun fading. DJ in an archival protector.
Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
BURGESS, Anthony. Shakespeare. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first American edition. The acclaimed British novelist Anthony Burgess has also written classical music, plays, screenplays and many non-fiction works. In this one, he attempts to flesh out the life and personality of William Shakespeare. With text by Burgess, 48 color plates and 97 black & white illustrations. This work previously published in the U.K. by George Rainbird, Ltd. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations in silver to black spine blocks. Jacket features painted portrait of Shakespeare to back cover. --- A very nice copy, clean, and bright but with a hint of sunning to edges of cloth. Unclipped jacket with a little yellowing and light chafing to edges, otherwise bright, intact and protected in clear removable mylar wrapper.; Small Quarto (9 to 11 in. tall); 272 pages
Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.
Burgess, Anthony. Shakespeare. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covered in brown cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine. Decorated endpapers. Clean and tight. . Unclipped dust jacket shows wear, fading and chipping on spine and corners. Boards show fading near edges. . Color Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 272 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Anthony Burgess. Shakespeare. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$36.75 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: In original clipped jacket with intact price ($17.50). Rubbing at the edges of the jacket. Brown cloth over boards with black labels and silver gilding on spine. Dark top-stain. Floral motif endpapers. Former owner signature on half-title. The interior is clean, clear, and crisp with bright images. Pages:272 Dimensions:10¼ x 7¾ x 1.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Burgess, Anthony. Shakespeare. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$44.89 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Out of print. Binding is cloth.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Burgess, Anthony - Shakespeare, William. SHAKESPEARE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$58.18 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Stated First American Edition. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Burgess, Anthony. Shakespeare. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 4to., 272pp. Beautiful First U.S. Edition, bound in brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on black leather labels on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Board edges ever-so-lightly toned. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($15.00 until Dec. 15, 1970), has a hint of wear at the crown but barely noticeable. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Anthony Burgess. SHAKESPEARE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Scuffing to panels. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Burgess, Anthony. Shakespeare. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1970.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to 11" - 13" tall; 272 pages; Inscribed and signed by Burgess on the title page to Jere Real. Jere Real was a professor at Lynchburg College; he coordinated visits and played host to the authors who appeared at the college as part of the Thornton Writer-in-Residence and Guest Reader program. Snug, bright and neat in a crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with 1st issue $15 (until Dec. 1970) price intact to unclipped front flap. Trace shelf rub to jacket at spine ends. Publisher's black top stain is solid and uniform. Handsome copy, not often seen in signed copies. NF/NF; Signed by Author
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.